Exempel på teleology

• This "cosmic line" was provided by natural aesthetics and the progressionist teleology of evolution.

• Any attempt to conceal states within the laws would introduce an element of teleology into physics, which is considered anathema by most scientists.

• This could, again, be backed by various arguments, including some relying on the teleology of human nature.

• That insistence stems from the more fundamental aim of the revisionists to resist the anachronising teleology that often accompanies ' grand theory ' explanations of the past.

• The same significance is carried over in calling modernity late but now even more problematically, since that teleology and predicted demise seem even more unlikely.

• The chapter on development has a philosophical introduction that includes material on determinism, probabilism and teleology.

• Without this step, there remains an element of teleology, or predestination, in the way that chemistry ' discovers ' life with unusual efficiency.

• The first phase of the next stage is to explore certain potential tensions with the workings of artificial teleology.

• There is no teleology about organisms: they simply exist, and their purpose in life is to go on existing.

• In part, this is because whiggish teleologies presume rights are immortal and so cannot appear at any specific point in time.

• Interpretation risks falling victim to teleology if too much attention is paid to long-term trends.

• A certain teleology is present and there is much reading back into the past.

• The debate was most commonly interpreted as being between teleology (function) and morphology (structure, or the relationship of parts to whole).

• This bold revisionist backlash against the confident teleologies and polarities embedded in older models of 'modernization ' now represents something approaching the current historical consensus.

• It conjures up hated notions of subjectivity, teleology, and wishy-washy folk psychology.